There is agreement! All that we have been waiting and
anticipating has come true. Today at about 10:30 Central Time we received word
that there has been an agreement at the conference.
This means big news and changes for our world in the next
few years! Not only will we start to make changes towards reducing our carbon
emission but we also will be working towards keeping our world below 2oC
and if possible, 1.5oC.
In the geo-engineering sector this could mean the beginning
of more funding, research and discoveries. With the need for better ways to
manage our carbon output (and now intake from new carbon reducing technology),
the geo-engineering field will flourish.
New technology will likely be developed to take carbon out
of the atmosphere. There also will be a push for finding a way to store of use
the captured carbon so industries such as plastics or machining would flourish
from being able to use this carbon.
There will also be a push monitor the amount of carbon we
are taking out of our atmospheres. Even though it is harmful in the levels that
we are putting into the atmosphere now, carbon dioxide is essential for things
like plants on our planet. If we take too much out me might detrimentally
effect plant life.
Carbon dioxide emissions are also what has kept us in the
period that humans have developed in (the Holocene). By burning wood and fossil
fuels in the early days of humans we essentially inadvertently geo-engineered
our climate to become more stable and warm enough for life to develop. If we do
not monitor how much carbon we take out we could send ourselves into the next ice
age by taking out too much.
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